ברכות ליעל פלמן על הזכייה במלגה של מכון שטראוס למחקר

Congratulations to Yael Pelman on receiving the Strauss Institute scholarship

למעבדה חדשה בקמפוס רחובות

נושאי המחקר:

פיתוח אריזות מזון אנטימיקרוביאליות חדשות

Dr. Einav Malach – Lab Technician

Dr. Irena Peri – Lab advisor

Heli Bochnik-Tamir - PhD Candidate Exploring Toxin anti-toxin system in bacteria at the molecular level.

Tal Stern - PhD candidate, Studying Food borne pathogens and developing chemical tools to tackle them.

Avishag Yehuda - MSc candidate, exploring the quorum sensing sysem of food borne pathogen Bacillus cereus.

Novel antimicrobial agents for food applications

Food-borne and other infectious enteric diseases are significant sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The high demand for minimally processed, easily prepared and ready-to-eat ‘fresh’ food products poses a major challenge for food safety and quality.

Recent outbreaks of food-borne microbial pathogens have driven the search for innovative ways to inhibit microbial growth in foods while maintaining quality, freshness and safety.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2019

• Amso Z, Hayouka Z. Antimicrobial random peptide cocktails: a new approach to fight pathogenic bacteria. Chem Commun (Camb). 2019; 55, 2007-2014. (Invited Review- Featured article).
• Yehuda A, Slamti L, Malach E, Lereclus D and Hayouka Z. Elucidating the Hot Spot Residues of Quorum Sensing Peptidic Autoinducer PapR by Multiple Amino Acids Replacements, Frontiers Microbiology, 2019; 10, 1246.

Lab Website
Fighting pathogenic bacteria using novel peptide-based antimicrobial agents

Novel antimicrobial agents for food applications

Food-borne and other infectious enteric diseases are significant sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The high demand for minimally processed, easily prepared and ready-to-eat ‘fresh’ food products poses a major challenge for food safety and quality.